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Members of the Batavia Village Council held a special session Jan. 30 to elect a new council member. The session was held to replace the vacant seat left by former council member Scott Runck, who recently was forced to resign during the previous council meeting in order to pursue his new position on the Batavia Board of Education.

The village of New Richmond is in the process of having its application approved to receive money from the National Scenic Byways Program. The money from this grant will go toward one aspect of the Front Street grant, which the village was denied.

As part of an ongoing push to drive the economics of Clermont County to a more prosperous level, the Clermont County Commissioners announced Jan. 19 that a contract had been made with a local private sector economic development group to plot the county

God bless the bravery of a three-year-old girl. Eva Williams, 3, along with her father, mother and younger brother, reunited Jan. 18 with the three firefighters who rescued her from a slick situation on Dec. 10. That afternoon, Eva learned the hard way what it means to be on thin ice.

A committee formed by the Bethel Village Council proposed at the Jan. 23 meeting that the village pursue the formation of a charter. The proposal, made by councilman John Swarthout, was made in the hopes that a charter would update and streamline the way Bethel is governed.

Just days before Ford rocked the region with the announcement that they were closing the Batavia Transmission plant, the Board of Clermont County Commissioners announced the acquisition of 30 acres of land, with 70 more under contract, to create an office park in Union Township.